INTERCOLONIAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 182, 3 August 1920, Page 5

INTERCOLONIAL.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Press Association.]

SIDNEY, Aug. 2. . Harry''Pearce, who won the sculling championship from Trickett and ! Laycock in 1880, died on Saturday. | • * .. . BRISBANE, Aug. 2. At the annual meeting ;of - the Mount Morgan Company the Articles of Association w*a-e altered Avit'h the object of-making-the operationsmore profitable and permanent than if the earnings depended so largely as hitherto on the price of copper. The alterations ompoVer the company to undertake ' extensive- developments, Ch-pecLally in regard to minerals, chemicals, engineering, lines supplying electric power for public and private purposes, and the piu'chasiug and chartering- of ships. MELBOURNE, Aug. 2.

One thousand five hundred confectionery trade employee.* are idle owing to the sugar shortage. Pro tern, Beltane, and Silent Way have- bean scratched for the Australian Hurdles.

Though the attempt to prevent the deportation, of Father Jergcr failed, secret negotiations are known to be passing among certain unions as to possible action in the. hear future. The transport unions conferred with the Watsrsiders' Federation and reached a decision regarding future action, which is being kept secret.